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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a PP who posted about paying $40k on a HHI of $250k.  It is a choice we make, for sure, and it is worth it to us.  But we sacrifice a lot to budget for it and it's hard - so much so, in fact, that when I posted my stats on a thread in the money forum, I was called a liar because people thought it was "impossible" to pay that much on our income without family money.  Well, we are full pay and making it work.

But when I hear people suggesting, or even attesting to their own situation, that families with a stay at home parent by choice (not necessity) are then getting substantial financial aid for no other reason that that they just want to have a parent home and/or don't think they could earn enough to be bothered to work...well that makes me much less inclined to donate to the annual fund.

I guess in my mind, I was picturing FA going to families where both parents were working at least one or perhaps even two jobs to make ends meet, and would otherwise never be able to give their child this opportunity.  I actually don't think of a family with the luxury of a stay at home parent to be less fortunate than my family - I think in many ways they are more fortunate not to have two busy parents rushing around working all the time.  So that is what seems unfair to me.[/quote]

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